Minna no Uta

Sometimes, as filler between shows, NHK shows brief music videos for traditional Japanese songs, from a series they did called Everyone's Songs. A teacher was nice enough to give me a small songbook from this series.

I just saw a video for a song called "Mama no Kekkon" (Mama's Wedding). I didn't really understand it, but it seemed to be about a young boy's happiness on the occasion of his mom getting married. Something about that struck me as odd, I guess -- the song didn't really explain the circumstances. At the end, it is revealed that the church is floating in the clouds....

Ah, well, too much to think about for now.